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May 19, 2008

Exclusive: CRC Open Sources

W. Thomas Smith, Jr., Director, Counterterrorism Research Center, CRC Open Sources

As we have reported here at Family Security Matters and elsewhere over the past eight months, Hezbollah - trained and financed by Iran and operationally supported by Syria - is a one of the most dangerous and growing Taliban-like terrorist armies in the world. That's not simply our opinion (though Iran's, Syria's, and Hezbollah's supporters and sympathizers would have readers believe otherwise). This week has proven - as is published in the Assyrian International News Agency - "The Pretense is Over: Hezbollah Rules Lebanon."

That it does, and Hezbollah has an increasingly aggressive global reach which extends to the Western Hemisphere.

According to the AINA:

"The 2006 fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, mostly in southern Lebanon, demonstrated that the government had little sway over Hezbollah's strongholds. And now all of Lebanon, it seems, can be a Hezbollah stronghold, whenever that faction's masters flex their muscles. ...

"Nobody can now persist in self-delusion: Hezbollah runs Lebanon. That armed faction relinquished its para-military control of much of Beirut this week only after the ‘government' of Prime Minister" Fouad Siniora backed right down on measures Hezbollah opposes. Beirut airport's Hezbollah-sympathizing director will be reinstated, and the ban on Hezbollah's mysterious private telecom network will be reversed."

We will have much more on this strategic setback in the broader war on terror.

The Pretense is Over: Hezbollah Rules Lebanon
10 arrested in France, Germany, Netherlands in terror probe
Bloodying Iran's Foreign Legion
by W. Thomas Smith Jr.
Ignoring what extremists say about 'Jihad'
by Stephen Collins Coughlin
Can the West be saved?
by Serge Trifkovic

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